Awakening is the complete and profound acceptance of things as they are in this moment, in all the beauty of the Present Moment.
At the beginning of our journey we inevitably feel the need for a guide – or several guides – because facing the search without any help would be impossible. And so it is. But once we have undertaken many paths and each one – obviously – has led nowhere, we feel “less in need” of relying on a search for “something.” We understand that, perhaps, it is not outside ourselves that we should search, but rather we should turn within ourselves.
But even this “search” leads nowhere because there is no place of bliss to reach SEPARATE FROM US not even “within ourselves.” Through experiences that are sometimes intense and demanding, such as the well-known “peak experiences,” we understand that we have devoted so much energy to the search for this fateful state of enlightenment, and that this energy could have been used for something else, and we stop, frustrated and sometimes angry.
But nothing is useless: this process of searching has nevertheless burned off those egoic energies of continuous and frantic seeking, leading us to first understand and then feel that the search for enlightenment is simply a purification from the claims, the desires, and the thoughts that continuously and obsessively push us toward its pursuit, at the mercy of our egoic drive.
It has often been said:
“The instant you stop seeking, you will find!”
You will find yourselves, free; free at last from the desire to seek! This is why there is no ENLIGHTENMENT other than the one that lies within each of us: we are all enlightened because we all have this Divine Light within us and this potential connection with the Source. It is simply a State of Consciousness that needs to be awakened, and not special characteristics acquired “once enlightenment has been reached!”
By searching in the future for this hypothetical higher state, one does not live in the Here and Now, the only instant in which one is truly enlightened! It is precisely the idea of the spiritual seeker that is in itself a limitation: there is nothing to seek, nothing to find, nothing to reach, nothing to become. But if we do not seek it first, frantically and with all our strength, we cannot understand it.
The same process occurs that we find with the Awakening of Kundalini. Kundalini, in the form of the Serpent coiled three and a half times around the Shiva lingam in the Root Chakra, Muladhara, represents the energetic potential of matter, the Energy that gives Life, the primordial Feminine Force of Creation, but is also the evolutionary Force of incarnated Consciousness.
It is said that, when this primordial force opens all the chakras one by one and activates the thousand-petaled Lotus, Sahasrara, the Crown Chakra, the fateful Enlightenment will be attained. Instead, in my opinion, it is the activation, through Energy and Awareness of every Chakra – a state that represents the completeness of consciousness in a human being – the synergy and the balance of each of these energy centers that determines what we can define as activation of the Body of Light, and this cannot be separated from the perfect integration of this Consciousness into everyday life AS IT IS! Without frantically searching for “something” that does not exist except within us, in terms, as has been said, of Consciousness and Energy.
But this is not a path for cowards. It takes courage to face the risk of “putting oneself into something bigger than us.” To pursue our dreams, to follow what our Soul incarnated for, feeling perfectly capable of doing so, despite all the compensatory superstructures we have carried with us for a lifetime.
Surrendering completely to that force which we feel within us but which is us, and which makes us go forward relentlessly in the certainty that it is the right path to follow. In complete trust in this force that makes us feel alive and active in every part of ourselves, we give up control of our life in order to venture into the Unknown.
The unknown is “non-control,” it is surrender to what is bigger than us, it is the surrender of the Ego. In this surrender, in this letting go through which we tend not to want to be anyone, we discover that, in truth, we are Everything and this will overwhelm us! Amazed that in being no one, in no time and in no place, we are in truth in complete and total connection and trust with the Transcendent Higher Energy, we will discover ourselves capable of “reigning over all things,” as in the logion of the Christ in the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas.
Jesus said: “Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will be troubled. When he is troubled, he will marvel, and he will reign over all things.” Logion 2 Gospel of Thomas
The true philosophy of Transformation is what Great Masters, Initiates, and Awakened Beings of every era have sought to teach Humanity. The Christ taught it to us through Love and Union – within us – with God the Father and Mother, dissolving the distance, sometimes infinite, created by religions that have used it to subjugate the “faithful” and unaware people. The transition we all now hope for is the one from “religion” to Spirituality, which allows and facilitates the true Expansion of Consciousness.
The secret of this transformation is not to wish to flee the Earth for the subtle worlds, but rather to work with all our strength, our intentions, and our Love to bring those frequencies, those energies, and that Love to Earth, thus spiritualizing matter! Strive, yes, strive to live each day to the fullest in Purity, Balance, Service, Love, and Light as if it were the last! Each day will influence the next, until one day our Body of Light will be fully active!
“No consciously induced spiritual growth can occur unless mental and emotional homeostasis are also present. Spiritual homeostasis, under circumstances of strong stress and physical conditioning, produces that quality for the sake of which the Monad, the celestial Spiritual Father, sent his son, the prodigal son, to incarnate.”
From the book “In the Footsteps of the Master”, Page 34 (Baker-Hansen)
What is this evolution, this Awakening, then, if not the fulfilled need to express divine perfection also through your physical body, increasingly trained and cleansed of etheric waste, your human personality increasingly free of superstructures, and your egoic mind increasingly free of conditioning and servitude? The more you embody this Awakening of Consciousness, the more you transmit this evolution to all those around you and to the whole of humanity. Use your physical body, then, as a channel of Light, Love, and Information, because this is the most direct method for accessing all the experiences that will forge you, and through these Frequencies that come from Higher Consciousness, you will be able to use all the experiences you live through to elevate yourself and, in turn, give these elevated vibrations to all the people around you, also facilitating their evolution.
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I woke and saw that life was service. I acted, and behold, service was joy!” TAGORE
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